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I’m a director who has been working with actors for almost 30 years, and I’m the son of a film historian. I’ll give you my definition of good acting. But I really want to stress (for the last time, then I’ll quit) is that if I say Pacino is great and you disagree, my experience does not make me right and you wrong. It just means we have different tastes.
For me, an actor is good if …
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Why was Connie Corleone so upset over the death of her husband, Carlo Rizzi, considering all the abuse to which he subjected her, and even more so, his direct involvement in the death of Sonny Corleone?
For a number of reasons: The man she loved, and the father of her children, was dead. And Connie knew, way down deep inside — though she refused to admit it to herself for years — that Carlo was the reason Sonny was murdered on the Long Beach Causeway. Which means, she also knew — again, way down deep inside — that Carlo had it coming. She had simply hoped her position as the daughter of Vito and Carmela Corleone would insulate Carlo.
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In the Theatrical cut the answer is left ambiguous. In the Director’s and Final cuts the answer is definitely yes. In the Theatrical cut most widely seen in the US there are still hints that Deckard might be a replicant which include:
When Sollozzo entered the picture, he requested the Corleone for protection and to give up political influence, something that he did not need at large for his business – so he was pushing his and someone else’s agenda -, in return he will give a cut of the profits, and take care of the Tataglia from his end.
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Abyss.
The scene is legendary because it caused her to storm off set and threaten not to finish the film if James Cameron forced her to do any more takes.
In the scene, Mastrantonio’s character, Lindsey, has just drowned and been hauled back to the oil rig, and her husband Bud (Ed Harris), along with their crew mates, are trying to revive her. Mastrantonio was soaking wet and freezing cold, lying on a metal grate. Her shirt was torn and her breasts exposed, and Harris had to shake her, scream at her, and repeatedly slap her across the face (to which she, of course, could not react, and had to play dead).
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Why did Michael Corleone go through the trouble of assassinating Stracci and Cuneo, too, instead of limiting the bloodletting to just Barzini and Tattaglia?
Actually, in the novel, Michael did only hit Barzini and Tattaglia.
According to the original source material, Stracci and Cuneo were considered less antagonistic of the Five Families, and they never put their full weight behind Barzini and Tattaglia.
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About half the money, give or take, is for above the line talent. So you have your actors, directors, producers, ect. They get paid in a percentage or in absurdly high amounts for films.
These people are also accommodate on set so production has to rent out luxury campers to house them for weeks or months at a time when on location.
Then they need to hire drivers and trucks to move those campers. Top tier stars can make demands on top of that.
I saw Jim Carrey’s camper once and it had an entire astroturf lawn on top of it, with a picnic table, with a vase with flowers on it. Don’t ask me why he wanted it, he just did.
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Zack Snyder shot 5 hours of assembly footage during principle photography in 2016. From that, he edited it to 214 mins(3.5 hours) and was happy to call it his director’s cut. From this, he was happy to edit it down to 3 hours for the theatrical cut, and release the 3.5 hour directors cut in Blu-ray.
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The finished film leaves unclear exactly what about his brother’s presence motivated Frank to change his story. The final film only states that Vincenzo is himself a Mafia chieftain in Sicily.
An early draft of the film explains that Vincenzo, shocked that Frankie is about to break his blood oath and betray the Corleones to government authorities, attends the hearing to remind Frankie that he must not break the Mafia’s code of silence, Omertà.
The Empire was the best damn thing that happened to the galaxy in a millennia.
A lot of the pro-rebel history holovids try to portray the Galactic Empire as a tyranny that seized power via treachery and deceit, but this simply isn’t true and even the most cursory of inspections will back me up.
Let’s say you lived in an outlying territory during the age of the Republic and your town or village was being repeatedly raided by bandits. What was your recourse? You’d appeal to your local commissioner, who in turn would refer your case to your Senator, who’d promise to take your case to the Senate. And then? Nothing. You might go for months before you heard anything, and even then, it would only be that such and such committee had agreed to hear your case at some point in the future. In the meantime, your family and friends would continue getting slaughtered, and your livestock stolen.
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